David A. Scheinberg MD, PhD

David A. Scheinberg, M.D., Ph.D. is currently Vincent Astor Chair, and Chairman, Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute. He also founded and Chairs the Experimental Therapeutics Center, and founded and was Chair of the Nanotechnology Center from 2010 to 2014. He is additionally Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Co-chair of the Pharmacology graduate program at the Weill-Cornell University Medical College and Professor in the Gerstner-Sloan Kettering Graduate School at MSKCC.

He is a founder and Director of the Therapeutics Discovery Institute, a nonprofit drug discovery corporation formed with Weill Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University and Sloan Kettering Institute. From 1992 until 2003, he was Chief of the Leukemia Service at Memorial Hospital. He has been elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the American Association of Physicians (AAP), and the Interurban Club. His other awards include the Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Science Professorship, the Lucille P. Markey Scholarship, The Emil J. Freireich Award, Leukemia, and Lymphoma Society Translational Investigator Awards, and CapCure Awards.

He is an advisor to charitable foundations and cancer centers and sits on the Boards of Directors of public and private biotech companies. Dr. Scheinberg is a physician-scientist, specializing in the care of patients with leukemia and also investigating new therapeutic approaches to cancer, both in the hospital and in the laboratory. The focus of his research is on the discovery and development of novel, specific immunotherapeutic agents.